![]() Many might have read it (some as I had earlier, through casually flips of chunks of pages). No doubt many educated Indians reading this would have encountered this book, perhaps on your own bookshelves, perhaps on the bookshelves of others. ![]() Perhaps it’s an indictment of the digital age, perhaps it’s a sign that we will be resilient to it, but I’ve sat entranced as I’ve scrolled through the first 20 years of India’s post-Independence history, from India’s tryst with destiny to its second war with Pakistan in 1965. I’ve attempted it in each of its roops, before my now successful undertaking reading it on the Kindle app of my mobile phone. ![]() The most popular and exhaustive history of post-independence India is Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi, a book that’s graced several of my bookshelves from college to today it’s been a hardbound book, a paperback, an audiobook, and finally a Kindle book. For all sorts of reasons wholly to do with the state of the State of India today, I’ve felt compelled to immerse myself in the history of India and the story of what it means to be Indian. ![]()
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